A photo of the blaze, named Camp Fire by officials, was captured by the space agency’s Landsat 8 on Thursday 8 November, showing a huge plume of smoke rising from the fire hours after it first broke out.

The fire is highlighted in the image, and smoke from the blaze can be seen spreading over the town of Paradise. Around 24 hours after the image was taken, the fire had torn through 70,000 acres of land.